Daniele Bartolini

Happy New Year I guess!

Crown 0.61.3 is out with 6 fixed issues that affected the previous version. Download & Changelog: crownengine.org/download #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource

Spent last week refining the character controller, adding browser joypad support, and polishing the @crown_engine physics online demo. Today, I've also added basic character animation!

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🚀 Crown 0.61.1 is out! This release fixes 11 issues that affected the previous version. 💾 Download & Changelog: crownengine.org/download #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource

Crown 0.61 is out with a new Vulkan backend, HSV color picker, flythrough navigation and greatly improved documentation! Changelog & Download: crownengine.org/news/crown-0-6… #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource

@vkrajacic Maybe the biggest opportunity in AI is resist to it long enough to see others get crushed by it and then replace them.

This is really not a flex. The last thing I would want from a service dealing with transactions is to use AI generated code. Just because every kid is jumping on the hype train doesn't mean you have to as well, especially if you already had a working system and a group of real engineers working on it. I'm glad I went with Paddle. I hope they're smarter than this.

@miketuritzin Mine. Core library almost done.

Realized I cracked 1000 commits on my engine/game. (Soon to be referred to as a game/engine :) )

An AI you don't control created a 400K-lines system in 60 days that neither of you understand, and it's now running everywhere with web access.

Available for testing in latest unstable build: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

Code: github.com/crownengine/cr…

Spent a couple days adding a proper HSV color chooser to @crown_engine.

@crown_engine is now on Grokipedia. The article contains lots of AI slop, but its weaker sections are easy to spot and ignore, and much of the content is factually accurate. Useful as a quick project overview: grokipedia.com/page/crown-gam…

I published a blog post detailing my experience implementing the WebGPU backend for bgfx, including my current thoughts on WebGPU. bkaradzic.github.io/posts/webgpu/

@rfleury Write once, ~run anywhere.

“Write once, run anywhere”

@thesohom2 Thank you, sus internet dude. You'll be thrilled to know where I ended 2025 at

@dbartolini_ congrats man love to see you hit number 69 on italys github leaderboard

BREAKING: Local coder hits #69 on Italy’s GitHub leaderboard.

@crown_engine's 2025 Year In Review!

« Don’t ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit. » (Linus Torvalds) « In my field of research (machine learning, and especially deep learning & neural nets), [theory lags practice] is a truth I have experienced first-hand. » (Yoshua Bengio) Watt invented the engine long before scientists conceived thermodynamics. We built electric circuits before scientists founded electromagnetism. We hacked computers together and then founded computer science. We created large language models and in the future, we will understand why they work. Daniel Lemire, "Theory lags practice," in Daniel Lemire's blog, January 7, 2015, lemire.me/blog/2015/01/0…

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released phoronix.com/news/Crown-Eng…

Crown 0.60 is out! This major update introduces significant new features and improvements throughout the engine. Plus, it contains fixes for 29 bugs! Changelog & Download: crownengine.org/news/crown-0-6… #CrownEngine #gamedev #indiedev #opensource